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North Otago Times, 22 September 1908, Page 2

It has bo3n estimated that loss oxer•lion is necessary U 'ride fifteen milos on a bicycle than to walk three miles.

The resignation of Captain Forrester from the Queon's Bides is gazetted.

The Governor, by praolamation, temporarily reserves 12 aeres 1 rood 13.8 perohes of land at Kurow as a roorention reserve.

Tho Australasian Concert Company lost £4379 over tlio venture of bringing the fioyal Artillery Band to Australia. The expenses totalled £8283, while the receipts were only £3903.

A two-year-old etiiid named Doris Smith, is the talk of Chicago. She can repeat from numory every line of Shakespeare's "Herokant of Venice," and has mastered some of the most difficult speaking pjec« in the English language.

The rainfall at Bsnmore Station for August was 0.79 inch, Otokaiko 0.20 inch, Borton's Siding 0.41 inch, Livnigslooo 0.37 inch, Ammore (Windsor) 0.48 inch, Totara 0,51 inch, Oamaru O.SB inch, Trotter's Creole 1.5!) inch, Kuuioo Hill 0.41 inch, Bushoy Park 1.30 inch, TimarU 0.84 inch.

Mr F. J. White ie gazetted a trustee oi the Waimats Racecourse Reserve in tho place of Mr J. H. Miteholl resign- «'• A, E, Reynolds is appointed a cadot in the District and Magistrate's Court at Oamaru in the place of Frank Miteholl, promoted to Palmorston North.

A ballot for two appropriations in the Enterprise Building Society was held Jasi night in Mr Piper's office. Marble No. 154 was the successful number. This appropriation brings the total the Society has distributed amongst its shareholders 'up to £9600.. .

The quarterly meeting of theA.O.P, was held last evening, C.R. Bro. Jas. Lcnnie presiding, over a large attendauco of members,; P,C,E, Bro. A. Jar"ma presented'LP.Cß, Bro, W. R, Currie with'a framed emblem- and a P'C.R. neck ribbon,, as tho emoluments of office." Bro, Currie s'uitnblv responded. ■..,..

During July and August of this ypar the Commonwealth shipped 43* tons of butter to the United Kingdom, In tho corresponding period last year 500 tons were shipped, w hf!e j n July and August, IflOS, the total reached 1009 tons,

. It is understood that owing to the rush at Home for third-class accommodation on the passenger steamers trading to n ow ,2»aJand the Shaw-Sa-vill and Albion Company's cargo steanler Karsmea, now on her way to .Wellington,; waji recently fitted up for the transport "of a number .'of emigrants, for; the Dominion..

: Holiday, itdh Syitb D<Jmi*i*m Day- cekbratioris'

will be issued by the Railway Depart* ment on the 25th and 26th, instant, available for return up to and includ mg the 30th instant.' The Union Company's s.s. Waito mata will arnye to morrow from Newcastle, via the north, with 1800 tons of coal The Wmtemata 15 discharging 3000 tons of coal at the greater portion being for tho Railway Department

Theic are largo areas of laud highly ■pliable foi giowing wheat in Queensland and part 9 of Now South Wales According to Mi Newman, tho pcoplo there belioVe-that'enormous 'area*';vyillj 111 future bo' do'\yn:lin 'wheat,; which, of ;cdurße-r-aß'the; wheats-lands of the wWd.''are''aU-nßar]y-tafeo^ ; }ip-. : will mean a constant source of woalth to Australia. In fact, the grain.grow*; ing there is advancing, so ,nuich that people intend adopting the American system of grain olevators, and wifl . thorefore mako arrangements to ship' their wheat in bulk in the ships' holds, doing away with tho cost of-bagging, which is a very great'item.

Before; the Princo of Wales-left Canuda, Mr Frascr and Mr Murray, the Governor and Premier respectively' of Nova Scotia, and Mr Fielding, the Federal Finance: Minister, waited on His Royal Highness to ask him to convey to tho Princess a beautiful fur cloak as the gift of tho people of Nova tjcotia. The garment was mado in Nova Scotia. It is of mink skin, and the buttons are of 24-carnt Nova Scotia gold, with native pearls and amethysts, tho workmanship being entirely nativo. Tho gift is contained in a casket of nativo wood, trimmed with Nova Scotia steol and gold.

In tho conditions gazetted for tho licensing of a smoko houso at Purakauiii, Otago, " His Majesty or the Governor, and all officers in the Government service," when acting in the exocttiioii-of their duty, "shall at all times havo freo ingress, passage, and caress into, through, and out of the' said smoko houso without payment," The smoke houso is owned by IVancis Joseph Sullivan, Mr Tavernor, tho Agont-Gcneral for Victoria (so says yesterday's cables), thinkg (hat if .the I King visited Australia it would do much to knit the Empire togethor. It might be judicious also to invite the King to visit Now Zealand to take udvantago of tho arrangemont that has been made for his going through Mr Sullivan's smoko house "without payment."

Tlio basket social in aid of tlio Catholic Church funds, hold on Thursday night in the Totara Hall, was a great success. The hall was nicely decorated foe the occasion, and was crowded with both young and old, who socined to enjoy themselves thoroughly. Ilia music was supplied freeby Mr Morgan and Mr R. Cottingham, and Mr M'Gregor acted as M.C. in his usual efficient style. During the evening songs wero sung by Messrs, J. t'agney and T. Ford, and a recitation was given by Mr Craig. Mrs Toohill deserves thanks and high praiso for the enorgetic way in which she worked to. make the social a success, and it Bhould not be long before the settlers have a nice little building erected,

Mr William Brash, who died at Ngapara on Saturday, was ono of the old identities of Otago, and was well known and highly respected in Otago. He arrived at Port Chalmers in the Three Bolls. After working at his calling for somo time in Duuedin he purchased a property at Saddlo Hill, near Dunedin, and there carried on farming pursuits for some years. After selling his farm he lived at Mosgiel in retirement, and subsequently removed to Ngapara, to be near his relatives, his daughters in this district being Mrs G. Hutchison (of 'Manila), Mrs J. Pryde (Totara), and Mrs T. M'Culloch (Ngupara). Mr Brash had reached the age'of 89 years,- and had resided for about nine years at Ngapara. . The people of the Saddlo Hill and Tfticri districts will regret to learn of tho passing away of a pioneer who had earned their respect, and of a Eottltr who had hewn his way • out of the rough of tho early days, and sympathy will bo oxprossed for the membors of his family, ono of whom is Mr W. Brash, a well-known agriculturist in the south.

All who knew Mr T. S, Adams, who managed tho Swan Stables for Mr Cunningham, will regret to lenm of his death, which occurred at the comparatively early age of 36. Although for. years suffering from ill-health he smiled through life with a pleasant bonhomie that made him an acceptable personality with everyone ho mot. Apart from his daily avocation ho took an active and moro than ordinarily intelligent interest, in tho. Endeavour Lodge of Druids, of which he had held tho positions of Past Arch* Druid and Past District President, while ho had also been entrusted with the distinction of Grand Lodge Eepro-! Kcntative. He was treasurer and coach of the Excelsior Football Club, and on many occasions gave the members the benefit of his advice and experience. All thoso personal gratuities aro remembered and treasured by his friends, of whom he had many, and ho leases behind him a memory of kindness pleasantly dispensed. Ho leavos a widow and three children to mourn their loss, a loss which tho friends of deceased assuredly express sympathy with.

"Tiic terrible Turk" is not so black as he is painted. Dr Purdy, in the course of a lecture at Auckland last week, (the Auckland Star reports), expressed the opinion, gained from personal experience, that tho Turks aro one of the finest races in Europe, .or Asia. In Jerusalem to-day, he added, the troublo was not so much with the Turks'ns with the Christians, among whom tho Turkish soldiers had to maintain peace. - 'I have," he said, "mot Chinese in various parts of the world, and I must admit that I have found the Chineso an honest man, ns distinguished from the Jap. I do not think anyone who has had any dealings with tho Jopaneso would trust ihem far. No merchant in Hong Kong would take the word of a Jap against that of a Chineso." The Eussian, Dr Purdy added, was a bolter man than the Jap, and he was satisfied had tho war -continued another two years, tho Russians would have won. Dr Purdy was asked how he could speak so highly of tho Turks in view of thoir horrible massacres to Armenians. "The Armenians deserved to bo massacred," he rei'liccl. "Tho Armenians are the most dospicablo. people I havo ever met, and, although the massacre in cold Hood is not justified according to /uiglir-h views, there is more to bo said for the Turk than for tho Armenian."